The Olmsted Brothers, who consulted on the parkway design, suggested its width be tailored to the cost required to take the land it ran over, resulting in a wider right-of-way in less expensive areas.

By 1899 the entire route had been designed and land acquired, and the eastern section from Eliot Circle to Winthrop Avenue had been completed.

When originally built, the parkway ran adjacent to Winthrop Street, but the two were merged during road widening in the 1950s.

Apparently originally expected to be a grade crossing, in 1903 a pony truss bridge was built to span the tracks.

One is the Poirer Memorial Roadway, which is a westbound access road from Santilli Circle in Everett to the Sweetser Overpass.

[3] In 2024, the city of Everett won a federal Reconnecting Communities grant to redesign the rotary at Sweetser Circle.